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Troy Tice @tjt84.bsky.social · 3d

I'll take what good news I can get at this point!

By the way, Bernardo, Ed and I are very interested to hear more about the Engelberg conference. Will there be a write-up or summary available for those who’d like to know more?

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Troy Tice @tjt84.bsky.social · 3d

I'll take what I can get.

Troy Tice @tjt84.bsky.social · 3d

You can still see the page under all the Co-pilot crap?

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Troy Tice @tjt84.bsky.social · 3d

that “impossible” phenomena might actually exist?

Troy Tice @tjt84.bsky.social · 3d

I do sometimes need to be reined in, but I’m grateful that we can discuss these things without automatically assuming physicalism. From your vantage point, as someone well attuned to the scientific world, do you also sense a growing openness to the possibility

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Troy Tice @tjt84.bsky.social · 3d

By the way, I really appreciate your skeptically open-minded approach. To lay my own metaphysical cards on the table: I’m a dyed-in-the-wool idealist in the vein of David Bentley Hart—an idealist who also happens to think that most so-called paranormal phenomena are real.

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Troy Tice @tjt84.bsky.social · 4d

Unfortunately, James Randi was very problematic. mitch-horowitz-nyc.medium.com/the-man-who-...

The Man Who Destroyed Skepticism

Scourge of psychics James Randi was no skeptic; our culture is poorer as a result

mitch-horowitz-nyc.medium.com

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Troy Tice @tjt84.bsky.social · 8d

Evil piece of shit. I hope he has to answer to the law one day!

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Troy Tice @tjt84.bsky.social · 8d

Where can we learn more about this conference?

Troy Tice @tjt84.bsky.social · 15d

I hate Trump!

Troy Tice @tjt84.bsky.social · 15d

Just kidding! I am really enjoying your book on the polis.

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Troy Tice @tjt84.bsky.social · 16d

You didn't forget mine, right??

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Troy Tice @tjt84.bsky.social · 17d

Would have been nice if Kelly had given a television interview.

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Troy Tice @tjt84.bsky.social · 19d

Leaches.

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Troy Tice @tjt84.bsky.social · 20d

Pure evil.

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Troy Tice @tjt84.bsky.social · 21d

She'll always be Nina Banks to me.

Troy Tice @tjt84.bsky.social · 26d

This one. Oh my. Poor babies.

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Troy Tice @tjt84.bsky.social · 27d

Hopefully she will some day.

Troy Tice @tjt84.bsky.social · Oct 3

These pictures tear me up. Resist fascism, always.

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Troy Tice @tjt84.bsky.social · Sep 30

These are the people who would have staffed the concentration camps.

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Troy Tice @tjt84.bsky.social · Sep 30

Pure evil.

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Troy Tice @tjt84.bsky.social · Sep 29

Perhaps I should have written “into working under materialist assumptions” rather than “into defending only the materialist position,” since those assumptions are often implicit.

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Troy Tice @tjt84.bsky.social · Sep 29

For a model of how this can be done, I would particularly recommend the work of Jeffrey J. Kripal, especially his most recent books.

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Troy Tice @tjt84.bsky.social · Sep 29

Historians can, IMO, remain open to the possibility that these events actually occurred without compromising methodological rigor. As a medievalist, I know several scholars who take this position.

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Troy Tice @tjt84.bsky.social · Sep 29

Thanks for your response. What you see as the book’s weakness, I actually see as its strength. By trying to sidestep metaphysical questions, historians end up straightjacketing themselves into defending only the materialist position—with devastating consequences.

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